Teacup

This teacup is part of a 48-piece 'Autumn Splendour' dinner set, produced by Crown Lynn in 1963. The lithograph design, supplied by a New York manufacturer, features plant forms and leaves in green, brown, and yellow. It was the best-selling Crown Lynn dinnerware pattern throughout the 1960s.

'Autumn Splendour' was one of five designs issued under the highly successful Crown Lynn replacement policy, which allowed customers to build up their sets on a piece-by-piece basis, and guaranteed that the various components would be available for at least five years. 'Autumn Splendour' was in fact available for almost two decades, and some collectors still scour second hand stores in the hopes of completing their set.

Further information

Monk, Valerie Ringer. 2013. Crown Lynn: Collector's Handbook. Auckland: Penguin Books.